Comedy

Judd Apatow grew up idolizing Mel Brooks. Now he’s telling Brooks’ story in an HBO documentary

Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man!, a two-part HBO documentary debuting this week, is a career-spanning portrait of one of American comedy’s most influential figures.

MEL BROOKS and Judd Apatow attend the Los Angeles premiere of HBO Documentary Films' Mel Brooks: 99 Year Old Man! at Ted Mann Theater at the Academy Museum on January 20, 2026 in Los Angeles, California.
OMER ETZION, acting as US President Donald Trump on Eretz Nehederet.

‘Maybe we’ll bomb them, maybe I’ll just dance’: Eretz Nehederet laughs at Trump’s Iran attack plan

Photo from Murder at the Dead Sea

What to watch in Israel: War is over with ‘Murder at the Dead Sea’

Imogene Coca and Sid Caesar in a promotional photo for "Your Show of Shows," in 1952. The television show ran on NBC from 1950 to 1954.

Before ‘SNL,’ there was Sid Caesar and a roomful of Jewish writers


'The Daily Show's Jon Stewart rejects 'military solution' to Hamas in latest episode

Stewart compared America's criticism of Israel to advice to an addict from his drug dealer, and called on Israel to cease fire, and Hamas to release hostages, "without preconditions."

 Jon Stewart addresses the war in Gaza on the Daily Show, February 26, 2024.

Hollywood goes bananas for 'The Monkey House'

In spite of the movie theaters being closed for much of October due to the war, the movie has continued to draw audiences.

 ADIR MILLER in Avi Nesher’s ‘The Monkey House.’

Hanoch Levin’s laughing mammoth - opera review

In Levin’s dark comedy, there is something in the nature of living itself that oppresses us. London might have mammoths, good television, and pianos – but all are outside our reach.

 A SCENE from ‘Hanoch Levin – The Opera.’

'Eretz Nehederet' uses TikTok to mock UNRWA-Hamas scandal

The program joked that UNRWA believed they were hosting a "Student exchange program" before depicting a Gaza captive.

Eretz Nehederet, a popular satirical comedy program on Israeli primetime television, took the opportunity to run with a popular TikTok trend and poked fun at the ongoing UNRWA scandal in a new video released on the platform on Tuesday. January 30, 2024.

US comics help Israelis cope with trauma of Hamas attack

Steadily, some form of normality has returned in Israel; now, comedy shows are sold out as rocket attacks from Gaza have started to subside.

 American comedian Ian Lara

Jewish comedian Gianmarco Soresi goes viral after learning how to sign ‘Nazi’ in ASL 

The translator imitated Hitler’s mustache with two fingers placed on her upper lip while her other hand did a reduced ‘sieg heil’ gesture, something commonly practiced in Nazi Germany.

 ADOLF HITLER reviews his troops during the victory parade in Vienna following the German annexation of Austria, March 16, 1938. Hitler called Lueger ‘the greatest German mayor of all times’ in ‘Mein Kampf.’

Amid Israel-Hamas war, Comedy for Koby arms Israelis with laughter

“Laughter is healing,” said the foundation’s executive director, Eliana Mandell Braner, whose brother Koby was murdered by terrorists in 2001 when he was 13.

 Butch Bradley in action

‘Remembering Gene Wilder’ highlights a Jewish comic genius

In recorded excerpts from Wilder’s memoirs and interviews, Wilder speaks about “mysterious brushes with irony” that shaped his fate.

ZERO MOSTEL and Gene Wilder in ‘The Producers’

What were Israel's top pop culture moments of 2023?

Concerts, stand-up, successful films, oh my! The year 2023 was filmed with iconic moments by Israeli stars, as well as stars in Israel.

 Noa Kirel

A starry night in Bethlehem: Eretz Nehederet at it again in latest skit

Stranger Things star Brett Gelman put his rich comedic talent to use to support Israel during wartime by performing in a sketch on the comedy show.

Brett Gelman appears on 'Eretz Nehederet.'